WILMINGTON, North Carolina—March 8, 2021—GE Hitachi Nuclear Energy (GEH) and Fermi Energia OÜ have advanced their technology collaboration by entering into a teaming agreement to support the potential deployment of a BWRX-300 small modular reactor (SMR) in Estonia.
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WILMINGTON, North Carolina—February 24, 2021—GE Hitachi Nuclear Energy (GEH) today announced that it continues to make significant progress in its efforts to license the BWRX-300 small modular reactor (SMR) in the U.S.
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WILMINGTON, North Carolina—February 11, 2021—GE Hitachi Nuclear Energy (GEH) today announced the formation of GEH SMR Technologies Canada, Ltd. to support the deployment of the BWRX-300 Small Modular Reactor (SMR) in Canada.
Lisa McBride has been named Country Leader, Small Modular Reactors. In this role she will collaborate with Canadian customers, stakeholders, suppliers and partners in GEH’s pursuit to bring the first grid-scale SMR to market by 2028.
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WILMINGTON, North Carolina—December 3, 2020—Global Nuclear Fuel (GNF) today announced that lead test assemblies of its Accident Tolerant Fuel (ATF) solutions have been delivered to the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) for examination after commercial operation. The unfueled IronClad lead test rods and fueled ARMOR lead test rods, the first to be installed in a commercial reactor, successfully completed a 24-month fuel cycle at the Edwin I.
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WILMINGTON, North Carolina—December 1, 2020—GE Hitachi Nuclear Energy (GEH) today announced that the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) has issued a Final Safety Evaluation Report for the first of several licensing topical reports (LTRs) that have been submitted for the BWRX-300 small modular reactor (SMR). The LTR, which was submitted to the NRC in December 2019, forms the basis for the dramatic simplification of the BWRX-300.
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WILMINGTON, North Carolina—October 29, 2020—GE Hitachi Nuclear Energy (GEH) announced today that Synthos Green Energy (SGE), a member of the Synthos Group S.A., has initiated discussions with Poland’s National Atomic Energy Agency (Państwowa Agencja Atomistyki - PAA) about a potential BWRX-300 small modular reactor project.
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WILMINGTON, North Carolina—October 6, 2020—GE Hitachi Nuclear Energy (GEH) today announced that it will be working with Ontario Power Generation (OPG) to progress options for the potential deployment of small modular reactors in Ontario including GEH’s BWRX-300 SMR, a major step in making the Canadian SMR Roadmap a reality.
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WILMINGTON, NC—August 18, 2020—GE Hitachi Nuclear Energy (GEH) today announced that it has signed onto Equal by 30, a campaign devoted to equal pay, equal leadership and equal opportunities for women in the clean energy sector by 2030.
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WILMINGTON, NC—June 10, 2020—Teollisuuden Voima Oyj (TVO) has awarded a contract to GE Hitachi Nuclear Energy (GEH) to provide outage services for the Olkiluoto Nuclear Power Plant in Eurajoki, Finland.
GEH will provide control rod drive mechanism exchange services for Olkiluoto units 1 and 2 for the remainder of the plant’s operating license. The first outage supported by GEH was recently completed.
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WILMINGTON, North Carolina and NISKAYUNA, New York—May 14, 2020—The U.S.
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